TORBAY Council has said it is not taking any further action after a member of the public urged that Mark Jenkins (pictured), former manager of The Grosvenor Hotel, should be reported to the police.

The complaint was sparked after he was filmed removing flowers from a council-managed garden in an episode of Channel 4's The Hotel.

Regular visitor Donald Bird wrote to council complaining: "Being a regular visitor to Torquay from South Yorkshire, I was appalled to witness on TV the manager (Mark Jenkins) of The Grosvenor Hotel in Belgrave Road, picking flowers from Torre Abbey Park for a redecorated bedroom at the hotel and commenting 'these flowers are courtesy of the park."

"I have recorded the programme. I trust that this matter will now be reported to the Torquay police for appropriate action."

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Why then whilst he's at it doesn't he dump all the trash from this '******' hotel in the park, nip down to the local allotments and collect the weeks supply of fruit and veg, stick two fingers up to the park inspector (nice chap from Poland)...have another hissing fit blaming everyone but himself , park for two days on a double yellow and refuse to pay the fine?... because all this publicity is after all really good for Torbay's' image!...........right enough said I;m off to the local park to get a lovely bunch for my dear old ma...she loves daffs! .

I find the whole programme weak and wishy washy,scratching around for a story line ,certainly does nothing for Torbay ,mind you it`s nice to see our foreign friends enjoying grosvenor hopitality,fish`n `chips live music and a national anthem to boot.Still Mark has had an invitation to go to London by a very rich customer,talk about taking coals to Newcastle.

with all the stuff going on in the world right now and somebody is appalled by a person picking flowers. IT makes you wonder what kind of mentality people like that have. if he picked the entire flower bed it would not matter. do gooders bug me